2024-01-13 21:27:10
A six-year-old boy had to be hospitalized in North Carolina following accidentally eating cannabis candy, thinking it was a new kind of Skittles.
Last Friday, Catherine Buttereit and her family had planned a day of bowling, but things turned sour when they went to Common Market, an “unusual convenience store, grocery store and bar,” for dinner.
Ms. Buttereit then purchased what she believed to be dehydrated Skittles since they were a candy her son had wanted to try for some time, according to the New York Post. However, it was rather a counterfeit made from Delta 9 THC, a therapeutic cannabis drug.
While each member ate one or two candies, the six-year-old ate nearly 40. Quickly, the symptoms manifested themselves, including a burning sensation in the pelvis, the impression of having cold in the chest, headaches and knotted stomach. It wasn’t until he said the water he was given tasted “disgusting” that the mother decided to call 911.
Then the father saw on the packaging that the product was made from cannabis. “He said it was a pot of marijuana and three pieces was an adult’s dose. At that point he had consumed regarding a third of the packet, or regarding 30 to 40 [bonbons], they estimated at the hospital. So he essentially consumed a dose 13 times greater than that of an adult and he is a 6-year-old child who weighs 40 pounds,” Catherine Buttereit told the American media.
After sleeping for 17 hours in the hospital, he was able to return home, where he slept once more. However, doctors do not know what the long-term effects of this incident will be on the little boy’s health.
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